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by olofsj 5221 days ago
I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but you will be quizzed on the included vocab as well. For example, you'll get questions like "two (kanji)" where you answer 二, and questions like "February (n)" where the answer is 二月. Both kinds of questions are treaded the same.

However, all questions are from English to Japanese where you write the answer yourself. You won't be quizzed on the other direction (given the Japanese word, what does it mean). Does that answer your question? I'll see what I can do to make it clearer on the website.

Personally I've always found it important to use the characters in different words since that's how you will encounter them in real use, so I try to make that a big part of the quizzing.

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I guess I wasn't very clear. Does it test on the readings of the kanji?
No, for now it doesn't. I may add that later, but since there are other apps (like Anki for example) that already do that I'm not sure if it's needed.
I use Anki on a daily basis for kanji practice - what drew me to your app was obviously the handwriting recognition. My handwriting is notoriously poor in English, and I'd rather avoid repeating the mistakes I made when I learned written English growing up.

If you were to add support for practicing the readings as well, I would buy your app in a heartbeat. I'd like to avoid using 2 different apps on a regular basis for kanji practice.